Telecommunications Infrastructure Management System

The Vendor is required to provide telecommunications infrastructure management system that allows for the capture and import of existing records and geospatial elements to the tracking and maintenance of its current and future inside and outside plant facilities.
- The system must be capable of providing accurate GIS mapping, storing and displaying detailed provisioning and configuration data as well as detailed geospatial attribute data, and maintaining and differentiating pre-build and post-build infrastructure designs.
- The system must also be capable of generating detailed work orders, providing detailed configuration, attribute, and work order reports, and tracking and displaying end-to-end network connectivity.
- Application functionality:
1. Spatial and non-spatial data relationships:
• Buildings
• Floor plans
• Telecom rooms and data centers
• Racks, enclosures, and associated infrastructure (fiber distribution panels, network switches, power supplies, cable management, media converters, etc.)
• Inside plant outlet and jack locations
• Access points (manholes, hand holes, pedestals, junction boxes, cross-connect boxes, etc.)
• Poles
• Conduit pathways and inner ducts
• Pathway depths and elevation
• Cable spans and cabling (fiber, copper, and coax)
• Splice enclosures
• Slack loops
• CATV equipment (directional couplers, splitters, amps, taps, etc.)
• Emergency phones
• Antennas (das, small cell, emergency notification, radio, etc.)
• Wireless access points
• Easements and pathway agreements
• Service areas and exchanges
• Network distribution areas (coax power supplies, PBX distributions, fiber distributions, simplex networks)
• 811 locate boundaries and locations
• Third-party geospatial data (other utilities, university feature objects)
2. General mapping: describe the solution’s ability to:
• Access maps, associated data, and attachments in the field (including areas without network connectivity)
• Upload changes from the field into the live system
• Import and utilize ESRI shapefiles (including from TRIMBLE tsc7 GPS collector), AutoCAD DWG files, excel spreadsheets and CSVs, and pdfs.
• Indicate any 3rd party software required to import data.
• Export features to ESRI shapefile, AutoCAD, pdf, and KMZ/KML
• Label elements with unique information based on the element and its database record
• Calculate or measure distances of various objects
• Create menus or shortcuts of frequently used tools and functionalities
• Display a plain and topographic background for maps as well as aerial imagery (both user collected and third-party imagery)
3. Access point mapping: describe the solution’s ability to:
• Track and display size, type, location, and other attributes of access points
• Associate all cables with the access point(s) they go through
• Associate all conduits with the access points they connect to
• Show lid text or any lid markings
• Relate splice enclosures, slack loops and other objects to the access point they are contained within
• Graphically display butterfly drawings of the access points to visualize conduits and cables inside the access points as well as their entries into the access point
4. Pole mapping:
• Track and display attributes such as pole type, owner, height, etc.
• Display the pole attachment list for all companies and attachments on a given pole
• Ability to display where infrastructure is positioned on the pole
5. Conduit and pathway mapping:
• Display duct bank routes
• Relate the duct bank to the access points at either end
• Track and display duct bank length and other attributes
• Display which cables go in which duct or inner duct
• Indicate if a duct bank or individual duct is leased, and if so, to whom
• Connect and track inner ducts and max-cell sleeves and reserve them for future use.
• Display the depth of the duct bank across the entire run
• Display whether the duct bank is encased in concrete, slurry, or is direct buried.
• Show type and size of ducts in a bank (pvc, orangeburg, 4”, 2”, etc.)
• Track and display conduit fill rates and provide alerts when conduits exceed fill rate thresholds
• Conduit pathways
• Cables based on their conduits
• Conduits based on their cabling
6. Copper and fiber mapping: describe the solution’s ability to:
• Track and display cable attributes (including but not limited to description, owner, manufacturer, cable counts and size, origin, destination, diameter, footage, placement method, etc.)
• Display cable color code based on cable size and type
• The cable from the map and obtain end-to-end connectivity across the network (to include inside plant, logical connectivity, and cross-connect boxes)
• Track cable sequential markings and footages to determine true length
• Display slack loop locations with the amount and type of cable slack and associate the slack loops with the correct cable
• Determine and report which pairs and strands of each cable route may have problems (such as breaks) or if the route contains different fiber types
• List, label, and report which pairs and strands are leased, to whom, and any other network restrictions on the pairs and strands
• Track and display fibers by the type of fiber cables (hybrid, single-mode, multi-mode)
• Provide a general scale factor for cables that will take the length from a physical length to an optical length
• Connect cable and fiber information to a materials database with information about various cable types
• Cables
• Network connectivity bi-directionally through splice locations and slack loops
• Run traces through fiber optic cables, splices, as well as slack loops and display the resulting location on the map
• A cable and modify pair and strand information related to that cable
• Track and display cable fill based on pair and strand usage and status
• Map a cable and as you click on the termination location it automatically relates the cable to that location in the database.